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Kill an old and outdated section which is better covered elsewhere (on the 'advocacy' portion of the website).

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</sect2>
<sect2 id="relnotes">
<title>The Current &os; Release</title>
<indexterm><primary>NetBSD</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>OpenBSD</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>386BSD</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Free Software
Foundation</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>U.C. Berkeley</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm>
<primary>Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG)</primary>
</indexterm>
<para>&os; is a freely available, full source 4.4BSD-Lite based
operating systems. It is based primarily on software from U.C.
Berkeley's CSRG group, with some enhancements from NetBSD,
OpenBSD, 386BSD, and the Free Software Foundation.</para>
<para>Since our release of &os;&nbsp;2.0 in late 1994, the
performance, feature set, and stability of &os; has improved
dramatically.
<!-- XXX is the rest of this paragraph still true ? -->
The largest change is a revamped virtual memory system with a
merged VM/file buffer cache that not only increases
performance, but also reduces &os;'s memory footprint, making
a 5&nbsp;MB configuration a more acceptable minimum. Other
enhancements include full NIS client and server support,
transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, integrated DHCP
support, an improved SCSI subsystem, ISDN support, support for
ATM, FDDI, Fast and Gigabit Ethernet (1000&nbsp;Mbit)
adapters, improved support for the latest Adaptec controllers,
and many thousands of bug fixes.</para>
<title>Third Party Programs</title>
<para>In addition to the base distributions, &os; offers a
ported software collection with thousands of commonly
sought-after programs. At the time of this writing, there
were over &os.numports; ports! The list of ports ranges from
http (WWW) servers, to games, languages, editors, and almost
http servers, to games, languages, editors, and almost
everything in between. The entire Ports Collection requires
approximately &ports.size; of storage, all ports being
expressed as <quote>deltas</quote> to their original sources.
This makes it much easier for us to update ports, and greatly
reduces the disk space demands made by the older 1.0 Ports
Collection. To compile a port, you simply change to the
directory of the program you wish to install, type
approximately &ports.size;. To compile a port, you simply change
to the directory of the program you wish to install, type
<command>make install</command>, and let the system do the
rest. The full original distribution for each port you build
is retrieved dynamically off the CD-ROM or a local FTP site,
is retrieved dynamically
so you need only enough disk space to build the ports you
want. Almost every port is also provided as a pre-compiled
<quote>package</quote>, which can be installed with a simple
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to compile their own ports from source. More information on
packages and ports can be found in <xref
linkend="ports"/>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Additional Documentation</title>
<para>All recent &os; versions provide an option in the
installer (either &man.sysinstall.8; or &man.bsdinstall.8;) to